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Pascals Wager
Number of pages: 6 | Number of words: 1411.... grounds for belief, we must wager or bet on his existence. (Cottingham, 1997, p. 256) Pascal says "the prize here is an infinite or infinitely happy life, one chance of winning against a finite number of chances of losing.... This leaves only one choice open, in any game that involves infinity, where there is not an infinite number of chances of losing to set against the chances of winning. There is nothing to ponder- you must stake everything"( Pascal,1995, no.418) His wager can basically be summed up as:
If God REALLY exists, and we believe (= bet that God exists), we have a .....
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ASA Framework
Number of pages: 2 | Number of words: 542.... within a company. These people determine organizational behavior (Scheneider,1987).
From 1997 to 1999 I was employed with a company named TNA North America. This was a company based out of Sydney-Australia, dedicated to selling and servicing packaging equipment to various customers in North America. At this company we all had very similar values, attitudes and beliefs. One of the employees who was very different from the rest of us was the general sales manager. He was different from rest of us in many ways. TNA North America is well known for servicing well to its custom .....
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China (food)
Number of pages: 2 | Number of words: 478.... is famous for delicately cooked fish and crabs for soups and for
flavorings such as soy-sauce.
Breakfast in China may be rice porridge, chicken noodle soup, or deep fried pastries that
taste like donuts. In China the people’s favorite lunch time foods include eggrolls, and
dumplings filled with meat or shrimp. A typical Chinese dinner includes vegetables with bits of
meat or seafood, soup, and rice and noodles.
A Chinese cuisine has definite rules for the appropriate combining of the ingredients into
dishes, and dishes in to an appropriate meal. A typical home meal .....
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Miracles
Number of pages: 3 | Number of words: 808.... we believe in the historical view of the biblical . Christians believe that the Bible is God's revelation of His involvement int he history of the world. "When God acts in history, He leaves behind His ‘fingerprints'. By examining the biblical record we can discover those distinctive characteristics of God's imprint" ( Geiser 1988:24). Raising of the dead is an event that shows the power of God. The most compelling act recorded in the Bible is the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead. This is the foundation of Christianity and our relation to God ( Romans 10:9- .....
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The Very First Wonder Of The World - The Great Pyramid
Number of pages: 3 | Number of words: 562.... countries.
The Great Pyramid rises from a huge rocky plateau leveled by man, similar to certain flattop mountains of Wyoming. From the top almost five hundred feet in the air above the base, it commands a view of the surrounding and desolate Egyptian desert. The base of the Great Pyramid covers thirteen and one-half acres, approximately seven square city blocks.
What was it that has attracted this man like a magnet? What was the force that drew these men to the great pyramid? What did these men find, to their own satisfaction, that could have affected this strange a .....
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The Bald Eagle
Number of pages: 2 | Number of words: 462.... size as the male. They usually live around thirty years in the wild , but when in captivity they live a longer life.
Experts believe that there may have been as much as twenty-five thousand to seventy-five thousand Bald Eagles living at the time when the bird was made our national symbol which was in 1782. Since then that number has decreased due to their habitat changes and hunters harassing and killing them whether for fun or for trade. Another harmful additive to the problem was the pesticide DDT. In 1940 Congress had passed a law that banned the killing of s for trad .....
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Themes In Chicago Hope - Tribu
Number of pages: 6 | Number of words: 1434.... her face, when she closes it and there are two figures in it. We are filled with shock, and the suspense of what will happen to her next keeps us involved and interested in the show – the music that is playing in this scene also adds to the dramatic tension. The next part of this story line sees Margaret talking about how she knows abit about medicine because she had a hysterectomy. By mixing up the dates we start to feel that something isn’t quite right. While Margaret is talking about the hysterectomy and how there we complications we are being lead toward the .....
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The Summa Teologica By Thomas
Number of pages: 3 | Number of words: 686.... question is: Whether it is always sinful to wage war? In this
question Aquinas states in his objection (1), “It would seem that it is always
sinful to wage war because punishment is not inflicted except for sin. Now
those who wage war are threatened by our Lord with punishment; therefore, all
wars are unlawful.” (172)
However, he justifies the act of war by giving three necessities. The first he
mentions is only an authority of the sovereign can order a war to be waged.
This reply in itself is a contradiction to the quotation above in the way tha .....
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